2014/04/12

Visualize violent crime rates in the US with choroplethr package

Visualize violent crime rates in different US States with choroplethr package
I have read choroplethr package from the blog post Animated Choropleths in R a few days ago.
As a another visualization tool in R language, I want to try this one.
To install the latest stable release(CRAN) type the following from an R console:

install.packages("choroplethr")

To install the development version using the devtools package from github, type the following::

I think you can use maptools package to do this https://sites.google.com/site/spatialr/plottingmaps And also, this blog post might be useful for you http://www.analyticsandvisualization.com/2014/01/animated-choropleths-using-animation.html